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Monday, 7 December 2009

The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference really marks the end-of-year for our software development community. Thanks to the OSGeo foundation and the regional Aust-NZ group for putting on the event. In particular the organisation committee did an excellent job running the conference this year (in the middle of a recession) and not losing money.

Thanks to the sponsors for supporting both the conference and the open source spatial community. Autodesk continues to show great leadership as a gold sponsor - and I was pleased to see the amount of activity around FDO with undertakings like FDO Toolbox bringing this core functionality up to the surface for general use. OpenGeo had an amazing showing as a both a gold sponsor (which is very generous as a non profit) and with numerous well received presentations. My favourite here was a small shell demo of Python and Javascript bindings for core GeoTools functionality. Ingres was also present as a gold sponsor with the exciting announcement of their enterprise open source database (which I would love to see integrated in the rest of the open source stack).

During the conference I did not manage to catch anything from the media sponsors - let us see how that went.

Position Magazine: had a timely october issue with an article on “Open Source in Geospatial Business”. That said I have not been able to find any coverage in their November issue.

About Me

Active Java developer with a hands-on approach available for consulting and training. Brings an enterprise computing / business intelligence background to GIS and standards work.

Serves on the Project Steering Committee of GeoServer, GeoTools and uDig projects. Outreach to new projects as a member of both the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and LocationTech Industry Working Group.